HOUSTON | Development Thread II

[JoninATX]

Downtown Houston looks like a war zone!

[AviationGuy]

Originally Posted by JoninATX

Downtown Houston looks like a war zone!

You mean from this evening's storm? Were you able to see the debris? The news coverage I saw wasn't very thorough, I think possibly because so many streets were blocked off by the police.

[JoninATX]

Originally Posted by AviationGuy

You mean from this evening's storm? Were you able to see the debris? The news coverage I saw wasn't very thorough, I think possibly because so many streets were blocked off by the police.

I wasn't going to post until I saw the affects of the storm. A lot of glass blown out of buildings, trees knocked over, power lines down... Looked like a hurricane or a bomb hit Houston...🌀

[JManc]

I went downtown this morning with my wife to pick up some things from her office. While she went upstairs, I walked over by the Total Energy and Centerpoint Energy buildings and it looked like a bomb went off. Her own building has about 80 cracked windows but none blew out. It was hurricane level of damage.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by JManc

I went downtown this morning with my wife to pick up some things from her office. While she went upstairs, I walked over by the Total Energy and Centerpoint Energy buildings and it looked like a bomb went off. Her own building has about 80 cracked windows but none blew out. It was hurricane level of damage.

What’s amazing to me is hurricanes generally last for hours. That storm yesterday blew threw in minutes yet did all that damage.

[AviationGuy]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

What’s amazing to me is hurricanes generally last for hours. That storm yesterday blew threw in minutes yet did all that damage.

When I took shelter downstairs, it rained hard for about 45 minutes, but the extreme winds didn't last more than 10-15 minutes. The damage looks like that from Hurricane Ike or Hurricane Alicia.

[bilbao58]

Originally Posted by AviationGuy

When I took shelter downstairs, it rained hard for about 45 minutes, but the extreme winds didn't last more than 10-15 minutes. The damage looks like that from Hurricane Ike or Hurricane Alicia.

I hope your house got spared. How close to you was the Cypress area tornado?

[AviationGuy]

Originally Posted by bilbao58

I hope your house got spared. How close to you was the Cypress area tornado?

The media haven't been very clear about where the tornadoes were, but I've determined that one of the tornadoes was at Heritage at Towne Lake, a 55+ neighborhood only a mile from where I live. The neighborhood is across a lake from the Kroger I go to. It would be west of Barker-Cypress, east of Greenhouse, and south of Tuckerton.

The second tornado supposedly occurred in Bridgeland, which is about 4 miles west of me. But I haven't been able to determine where it occurred.

The high voltage towers that fell were at Fry and West, about 4 miles from me. North of 290, where the neighborhoods are in pine forests, I understand that there was a lot of tree damage and some structure damage. My sister lives north of 290, and she said her area was "trashed" from the storm, much worse than where I live. So while I think my area had maybe 80 mph winds, I'm certain it was far worse in other areas, especially where the ancient trees in the inner city fell on so many structures and vehicles. I'm still hearing that it would take 100 mph winds to do the damage that occurred downtown.

[TowerSpotter]

Made more mock ups with most of Houston's development. 

https://skyscraperplus.com/articles-...0qUuoyqHrdVDHB



A link to the development map as well. Still currently in the process of adding more to the map:

https://skyscraperplus.com/skyscrape...evmap-4v218beg

[The ATX]

That's an excellent reference!

[TowerSpotter]

Originally Posted by The ATX

That's an excellent reference!

Only thing missing is TMC, The Woodlands, and Uptown.